mongoose-restify

Mongoose-Restify is a restify for mongodb collections though mongoose.

Use

We can overide methods listed in #methods and attache to expressjs router

var router = require('express').Router();
var API = require('mongoose-restify');
var Game = require('./model');

class GameAPI extends API {
    constructor(ops) {
        super(ops);
    }
    
    /**
	 * request start
	 */
    begin(req, res, next) {
        next();
    }
	
	/**
	 * request end but before send response
	 * */
    end(req, res, next) {
        next();
    }

	/**
	 * same as above for 
	 *  onBeforeSelect(req, filter, next) { next(null, filter); }
	 *  onAfterSelect(req, docs, next) { next(null, docs); }
	 *  onBeforeSelectOne(req, filter, next) { next(null, filter); }
	 * onAfterSelectOne(req, docs, next) { next(null, docs); }
	 *  onBeforeCount(req, filter, next) { next(null, filter); }
	 *  onAfterCount(req, docs, next) { next(null, docs); }
	 *  onBeforeCreate(req, body, next) { next(null, body); }
	 *  onAfterCreate(req, doc, numAffected, next) { next(null, doc); }
	 *  onBeforeUpdate(req, doc, data, next) { next(null, doc, data); }
	 *  onAfterUpdate(req, doc, numAffected, next) { next(null, doc); }
	 *  onBeforePartialUpdate(req, doc, data, next) { next(null, doc, data); }
	 *  onAfterPartialUpdate(req, doc, numAffected, next) { next(null, doc); }
	 *  onBeforeDelete(req, doc, next) { next(null, doc); }
	 *  onAfterDelete(req, doc, next) { next(null, doc); }
     *  onQueryPipe(req, queryPipe, next) { next(null, queryPipe); }
     * */
}

var gameApi = new GameAPI({
    path: '/games',
    model: Game
});

gameApi.install(router);

API Options Fields

path

path - path to api

    var Game = mongoose.model('Game');

    var GameApi = new API({
        path: '/games',
        model: Game
    });

model

Mongoose model

    var Game = mongoose.model('Game');

    var GameApi = new API({
        path: '/games',
        model: Game
    });

qFields

Allowed query fields. qFields is array. If you spesify query fields, it will be mapped to q query parameter in the request(query string). The request to the mongodb would be made through RegExp. It useful for autocomplition or some kind of serch.

    var Game = mongoose.model('Game');

    var GameApi = new API({
        path: '/games',
        model: Game,
        // for example it will create: { developer: /ab/i }
        qFields: ['developer']
    });

sFields

Allowed query fields to select. fields is string and you have to spesify the fields with space( ) seperator, otherwise will be allowed all fields. fields will be mapped to fields query parameter in the request(query string) and return only selected fields or uses defaults.

    var Game = mongoose.model('Game');

    var GameApi = new API({
        path: '/games',
        model: Game,
        sFields: 'name developer released'
    });

sort

Default sort option. sort is object and you have to spesify it as to mongoose sort option. By default null. You can also override default sort option with query string parameter named sort

    
    var Game = mongoose.model('Game');

    var GameApi = new API({
        path: '/games',
        model: Game,
        /*
            request `/api/games?sort[name]=1` will override default sort options
        */
        sort: { released:-1 }
    });

partialOps

Allowed mongo partial update operators. $inc, $mul, $setOnInsert, $set, $min, $max, $currentDate, $addToSet, $pop, $pullAll, $pull, $push and $bit allowed by default to overried those spesify this parameter as string array.

Methods

The methods listed bellow are allowed to overide.

begin

Request start.

    class CommentAPI extends API{
        begin: function (req, res, next) { 
            // todo some logic here
            next(); 
        }
    };
    
    var api = new CommentAPI({
        path: '/comments',
        model: Comment
    });

end

Request end

    class CommentAPI extends API{
         end: function (req, res, next) { 
            next(); 
        }
    };
    
    var api = new CommentAPI({
        path: '/comments',
        model: Comment
    });

onBeforeSelect

Fires only for select documents with GET request method.

    
    class CommentAPI extends API{
        onBeforeSelect: function (req, filter, next) { 
            /*
             todo some logic here
             filter is obect which hold 
              { query - select condition, 
                fields - select fields, 
                sort  - sort fields
                limit - number of documents to fetch, 
                skip - number of documents to skip
                lean - mongoose options
            */
            
            next(null, filter); 
        }
    };
    
    var api = new CommentAPI({
        path: '/comments',
        model: Comment
    });

onAfterSelect

Fires only for select documents with GET request method after onBeforeSelect method.

    class CommentAPI extends API{
        onAfterSelect: function (req, docs, next) { 
            // here is some logic
            next(null, docs); 
        }
    };
    
    var api = new CommentAPI({
        path: '/comments',
        model: Comment
    });

onBeforeSelectOne

function (req, filter, next) { next(null, filter); };

onAfterSelectOne

function (req, docs, next) { next(null, docs); };

onBeforeCount

function (req, filter, next) { next(null, filter); };

onAfterCount

function (req, docs, next) { next(null, docs); };

onBeforeCreate

function (req, body, next) { next(null, body); };

onAfterCreate

function (req, doc, numAffected, next) { next(null, doc); };

onBeforeUpdate

function (req, doc, data, next) { next(null, doc, data); };

onAfterUpdate

function (req, doc, numAffected, next) { next(null, doc); };

onBeforePartialUpdate

function (req, doc, data, next) { next(null, doc, data); };

onAfterPartialUpdate

function (req, doc, numAffected, next) { next(null, doc); };

onBeforeDelete

function (req, doc, next) { next(null, doc); };

onAfterDelete

function (req, doc, next) { next(null, doc); };

onQueryPipe

function (req, queryPipe, next) { next(null, queryPipe); };

queryPipe

Default query pipe. queryPipe should be function with query argument. You can use this method to spesify default population fields.

    
    queryPipe (query) {
       return query.populate('user', 'name avatar');
    }

onError

function (req, res, err) {
    if (err.httpStatus) {
        return res.json(err.httpStatus, { message: err.message });
    }
    
    // send internal server error
    return res.json(500, { message: 'internal server error' });
};